Experimental Shorts
Sept 17 | 8:00 PM | THE BRATTLE
Experimental and non-narrative shorts featuring animation, collage, illustration, analog techniques, performance, stop motion, found footage, and mixed media.
The shorts explore family, cultural memory, queer and immigrant identity, political resistance, and our relationship to place. The program has a strong focus on process and texture. Paint, charcoal, fabric, light, puppetry, handcrafted props and collage shape the stories.
Program run time: 1:39
The shorts explore family, cultural memory, queer and immigrant identity, political resistance, and our relationship to place. The program has a strong focus on process and texture. Paint, charcoal, fabric, light, puppetry, handcrafted props and collage shape the stories.
Program run time: 1:39
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Fumble - Mahsa Talebiani
8 Tastes of Longing - Phoebe Ching Ying MAN The Shrinking Island - Ally Casa Hermit in the Doldrums - Phoebe Moore 35 Days - Heidi Kumao Wanna talk? - Nadja Elpida Murze & Anastasia Shirmanova Lǎo Lǎo - Yang Hu I Bear - Nina Razzeghzadeh Better Lighting - Kathryn Ramey Thunderstruck - Beatrice Hoang 404 Page not found - Gina Kamentsky Happy Mother’s Day - Isabella Sperotto & Mariana Mello Oríkì Oshun - Elena Herminia Guzman The Watershed - Silvy Zhou trannies live forever: turn your eyes to the sky - Thair Thursday Content notes: This program includes shorts containing nudity, as well as films that address grief and transphobia.
Please note that the final film in the program, trannies live forever: turn your eyes to the sky, deals particularly directly with themes of transphobia and may be emotionally challenging for viewers. At the same time, it also explores themes of trans joy, resilience, and celebration. |
Fumble - Mahsa Talebiani
15:00
Fumble is a series of lighthearted performative vignettes that explore the duality of immigrant and queer life, the longing to return to the familiar geographic, cultural, and bodily coordinates of the past, alongside an equally compelling desire to assimilate into a new culture and identity. It depicts both the attempts and failures to fit in and explores the felt incongruities of this experience in a hybrid form.
Mahsa Talebiani is an experimental filmmaker exploring the intersections of queerness and diaspora experience. Their work delves into the sensory explorations within intercultural cinema, often showcasing their own body to manifest an embodied vulnerability. Through performance, video art, and sculptural space, they challenge traditional narrative film structures and hierarchical productions.
15:00
Fumble is a series of lighthearted performative vignettes that explore the duality of immigrant and queer life, the longing to return to the familiar geographic, cultural, and bodily coordinates of the past, alongside an equally compelling desire to assimilate into a new culture and identity. It depicts both the attempts and failures to fit in and explores the felt incongruities of this experience in a hybrid form.
Mahsa Talebiani is an experimental filmmaker exploring the intersections of queerness and diaspora experience. Their work delves into the sensory explorations within intercultural cinema, often showcasing their own body to manifest an embodied vulnerability. Through performance, video art, and sculptural space, they challenge traditional narrative film structures and hierarchical productions.
8 Tastes of Longing - Phoebe Ching Ying MAN
5:40
Food is a source of happiness for many people and can instantly satisfy both physical and mental needs. When we leave home and travel to a different place, we naturally compare the similarities and differences in the food between the two locations. This comparison enhances our understanding of both our home and the new environment, making us more aware of the distinct characteristics of each place and our identity. The artist Phoebe Man used images and text to express her food memories of Taiwan and Hong Kong. Additionally, audiences can use food coloring sheets to share their memories, feelings, and imaginations about food during the exhibition. These participatory artworks have been transformed into an animation.
Phoebe Man is a multimedia artist, independent curator and Associate Professor of the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. She specializes in socially engaged art and community art, and she has extensive experience in engaging audiences with her work. Her animation “Post #MeToo,” which is part of a socially-engaged art project, received an Honorable Mention from the FOLCS International Short Film Competition in New York in 2022. It was shown in 20 international museums and film festivals. She enjoys engaging the audience in her work and values the process of knowledge convection which results in open and diverse answers. This practice allows for pluralistic discussions and democratic expression. Her animations, videos and installations have been shown at over 200 exhibitions and festivals worldwide, include Anthology Film Archives in New York, Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale and European Media Art Festival. “8 Tastes of Longing” is her latest work.
5:40
Food is a source of happiness for many people and can instantly satisfy both physical and mental needs. When we leave home and travel to a different place, we naturally compare the similarities and differences in the food between the two locations. This comparison enhances our understanding of both our home and the new environment, making us more aware of the distinct characteristics of each place and our identity. The artist Phoebe Man used images and text to express her food memories of Taiwan and Hong Kong. Additionally, audiences can use food coloring sheets to share their memories, feelings, and imaginations about food during the exhibition. These participatory artworks have been transformed into an animation.
Phoebe Man is a multimedia artist, independent curator and Associate Professor of the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. She specializes in socially engaged art and community art, and she has extensive experience in engaging audiences with her work. Her animation “Post #MeToo,” which is part of a socially-engaged art project, received an Honorable Mention from the FOLCS International Short Film Competition in New York in 2022. It was shown in 20 international museums and film festivals. She enjoys engaging the audience in her work and values the process of knowledge convection which results in open and diverse answers. This practice allows for pluralistic discussions and democratic expression. Her animations, videos and installations have been shown at over 200 exhibitions and festivals worldwide, include Anthology Film Archives in New York, Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale and European Media Art Festival. “8 Tastes of Longing” is her latest work.
The Shrinking Island - Ally Casa
8:22
Routinely, a patch of sand known to visitors as the "Shrinking Island" is unveiled and covered by the tide. In this documentary, we see one 24-hour cycle of the process, focusing on the land’s only permanent residents - its hermit crabs - and their chance encounter with a man-made sand castle.
Ally Casa is a filmmaker and puppeteer from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, specializing in mixed media techniques combining 2D animation, stop motion, and live action puppetry. She enjoys experimenting with unconventional materials in collage and puppet fabrication, confusing notions of space and texture while prioritizing fun above all else. When home from the studio, she enjoys cooking, doing crossword puzzles, and watching videos of bugs. Both her personal work and short films can be viewed on her Instagram account, “minotaurmilk.”
8:22
Routinely, a patch of sand known to visitors as the "Shrinking Island" is unveiled and covered by the tide. In this documentary, we see one 24-hour cycle of the process, focusing on the land’s only permanent residents - its hermit crabs - and their chance encounter with a man-made sand castle.
Ally Casa is a filmmaker and puppeteer from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, specializing in mixed media techniques combining 2D animation, stop motion, and live action puppetry. She enjoys experimenting with unconventional materials in collage and puppet fabrication, confusing notions of space and texture while prioritizing fun above all else. When home from the studio, she enjoys cooking, doing crossword puzzles, and watching videos of bugs. Both her personal work and short films can be viewed on her Instagram account, “minotaurmilk.”
Hermit in the Doldrums - Phoebe Moore
9:01
A hermit makes worlds in her empty castle. Time alone is time for mystery and creations. When we build worlds of our own we need to be careful what we are building.
Phoebe Moore’s art recontextualizes the familiar. It looks for ugly in the beautiful and tenderness in cold images. Her work is playful, dark, colorful and tactile. A steady flow of collaborations with artists across many mediums has kept her art technique expanding and evolving over the years. She explores themes of intimacy, growth and habit. Her videos utilize layers and effects in digital and film to bend reality.
9:01
A hermit makes worlds in her empty castle. Time alone is time for mystery and creations. When we build worlds of our own we need to be careful what we are building.
Phoebe Moore’s art recontextualizes the familiar. It looks for ugly in the beautiful and tenderness in cold images. Her work is playful, dark, colorful and tactile. A steady flow of collaborations with artists across many mediums has kept her art technique expanding and evolving over the years. She explores themes of intimacy, growth and habit. Her videos utilize layers and effects in digital and film to bend reality.
35 Days - Heidi Kumao
6:49
“35 Days” is an experimental, stop motion animation about what happens when a coalition of strangers answers the call to locate a missing cat during the pandemic lockdown of 2020.
Created frame-by-frame using fabric cutouts and thread.
Heidi Kumao is an award-winning visual artist who creates animations, stitched fabric works, video installations, photographs, and machine art to give physical form to the emotions underlying everyday conversations and relationships. She has exhibited her artwork in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Her film, “Swallowed Whole,” about breaking her back, screened in over 25 film international film festivals and was awarded “Best Experimental Film” at the Seoul International Extremely Short Film Festival, and Humboldt International Film Festival. The publication, “Heidi Kumao: Real and Imagined” (2022), documents her solo exhibition of narrative fabric works and animations and received a Gold Award from the Midwest Book Awards.
6:49
“35 Days” is an experimental, stop motion animation about what happens when a coalition of strangers answers the call to locate a missing cat during the pandemic lockdown of 2020.
Created frame-by-frame using fabric cutouts and thread.
Heidi Kumao is an award-winning visual artist who creates animations, stitched fabric works, video installations, photographs, and machine art to give physical form to the emotions underlying everyday conversations and relationships. She has exhibited her artwork in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Her film, “Swallowed Whole,” about breaking her back, screened in over 25 film international film festivals and was awarded “Best Experimental Film” at the Seoul International Extremely Short Film Festival, and Humboldt International Film Festival. The publication, “Heidi Kumao: Real and Imagined” (2022), documents her solo exhibition of narrative fabric works and animations and received a Gold Award from the Midwest Book Awards.
Wanna talk? - Nadja Elpida Murze & Anastasia Shirmanova
1:54
Streets, signs, doors, walls, drawings and symbols on them: they change everyday. What do they tell us now?
This poetic visual essay, urges the viewers to construct new meanings from fragments of places, traces of other meanings, merging them into new stories about what they were or… could be.
The film was "distributed" through placing provocative QR-codes all around the globe, in the most unspeakable places: from toilets to galleries.
It encourages audiences to encounter films "in the wild", beyond the conventional cinema constraints.
"Wanna talk" is an attempt to visualize this dialogue between the lost and the present to create...meaning.
Always in flux, never fixed… never self-contained...
Nadja Elpida Murze is a Cypriot filmmaker, who explores themes of orientalism, linguistics and enigmatic experiences of the human perception. Anastasia Shirmanova is a mixed-media collage artist exploring urban perception and the interplay between memory and physical space.
The two artists work in tandem to fill in the “empty” spaces on broken down buildings, blinds and concrete, just like patching up moments in history that have been lost to time.
1:54
Streets, signs, doors, walls, drawings and symbols on them: they change everyday. What do they tell us now?
This poetic visual essay, urges the viewers to construct new meanings from fragments of places, traces of other meanings, merging them into new stories about what they were or… could be.
The film was "distributed" through placing provocative QR-codes all around the globe, in the most unspeakable places: from toilets to galleries.
It encourages audiences to encounter films "in the wild", beyond the conventional cinema constraints.
"Wanna talk" is an attempt to visualize this dialogue between the lost and the present to create...meaning.
Always in flux, never fixed… never self-contained...
Nadja Elpida Murze is a Cypriot filmmaker, who explores themes of orientalism, linguistics and enigmatic experiences of the human perception. Anastasia Shirmanova is a mixed-media collage artist exploring urban perception and the interplay between memory and physical space.
The two artists work in tandem to fill in the “empty” spaces on broken down buildings, blinds and concrete, just like patching up moments in history that have been lost to time.
Lǎo Lǎo - Yang Hu
1:30
Rendered in charcoal on a single sheet of paper, the animation journeys through the family portraits orchestrated by grandma throughout her life.
As each image is drawn, erased, and redrawn, the surface accumulates charcoal residue much like how past memories leave faint marks on us. Much like living itself, it can only move forward.
Eventually, the film unfolds into a reflection on the end and beginning of life.
Yang is a Chinese-born, bay area-based artist and animator whose work spans drawing, painting, and handcrafted animation. Originally from Lanzhou, China, and having immigrated at a young age, Yang draws inspiration from the layered experiences of migration, familial history, and shifting notions of home. Their practice often involves plein air painting and intimate, labor-intensive animation techniques that embrace imperfection and trace-making.
1:30
Rendered in charcoal on a single sheet of paper, the animation journeys through the family portraits orchestrated by grandma throughout her life.
As each image is drawn, erased, and redrawn, the surface accumulates charcoal residue much like how past memories leave faint marks on us. Much like living itself, it can only move forward.
Eventually, the film unfolds into a reflection on the end and beginning of life.
Yang is a Chinese-born, bay area-based artist and animator whose work spans drawing, painting, and handcrafted animation. Originally from Lanzhou, China, and having immigrated at a young age, Yang draws inspiration from the layered experiences of migration, familial history, and shifting notions of home. Their practice often involves plein air painting and intimate, labor-intensive animation techniques that embrace imperfection and trace-making.
I Bear - Nina Razzeghzadeh
2:39
Through memories and abstractions, the past reveals more about the present.
Nina Razzeghzadeh is an Iranian-Canadian filmmaker. Passionate about the arts from a young age, Nina is now pursuing a career in film, focusing on the art department, while developing her own multi-media projects. Recently graduating from Wilfrid Laurier's film studies program, Nina's goal is to connect with others through storytelling and find new ways to express herself through experimental filmmaking.
2:39
Through memories and abstractions, the past reveals more about the present.
Nina Razzeghzadeh is an Iranian-Canadian filmmaker. Passionate about the arts from a young age, Nina is now pursuing a career in film, focusing on the art department, while developing her own multi-media projects. Recently graduating from Wilfrid Laurier's film studies program, Nina's goal is to connect with others through storytelling and find new ways to express herself through experimental filmmaking.
BETTER LIGHTING - Kathryn Ramey
2:13
Enraged by the overturning of Roe v. Wade and all the other nonsense that the current regime has created this aggressive little agitprop appropriates TV commercials about how streetlights should make women feel safe and uses them as a critique of the white women who voted for this tyranny.
Kathryn Ramey (1967), Vancouver, WA / USA. A Guggenheim and Creative Capital fellow with an MFA in film and a PhD in anthropology who has made over a dozen films and installations, contributed numerous articles to anthologies and journals and written the essential text “Experimental Filmmaking: BREAK THE MACHINE” (Routledge, 2015). Her films operate at the intersection of experimental analogue processes and ethnographic research and are characterized by hand-processing, optical printing, and animation. She has screened at several festivals such as Toronto, Ann Arbor, TriBeca, Ji.hlava, and 25fps, among others. She is a full professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, Boston, MA USA.
2:13
Enraged by the overturning of Roe v. Wade and all the other nonsense that the current regime has created this aggressive little agitprop appropriates TV commercials about how streetlights should make women feel safe and uses them as a critique of the white women who voted for this tyranny.
Kathryn Ramey (1967), Vancouver, WA / USA. A Guggenheim and Creative Capital fellow with an MFA in film and a PhD in anthropology who has made over a dozen films and installations, contributed numerous articles to anthologies and journals and written the essential text “Experimental Filmmaking: BREAK THE MACHINE” (Routledge, 2015). Her films operate at the intersection of experimental analogue processes and ethnographic research and are characterized by hand-processing, optical printing, and animation. She has screened at several festivals such as Toronto, Ann Arbor, TriBeca, Ji.hlava, and 25fps, among others. She is a full professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, Boston, MA USA.
Thunderstruck - Beatrice Hoang
4:02
Light paintings and projected images are animated in stop motion, filling the room with bursts of light as the same movement repeats and stutters. Heavily borrowing the techniques of Takashi Ito's Thunder, Thunderstruck layers it with computational editing into something jarring.
Beatrice Hoang is a Vietnamese-American filmmaker based in the Greater Boston area who integrates digital and analog techniques in auto-fiction. With a background in computer vision, she explores narrative and experimental modes through collage, voiceover, and computational imaging. Her film Thunderstruck was part of the 2024 Scream Queer and 2024 Free the Kitsch film festivals, and her film My Sight is Lined with Visions premiered at the 2026 Shawna Shea Film Festival and was awarded Outstanding Long Short Film. Beatrice just finished Miles and Miles, a project inspired by her love for salsa dancing and queer nightlife. Find more at www.beatricehoang.com.
4:02
Light paintings and projected images are animated in stop motion, filling the room with bursts of light as the same movement repeats and stutters. Heavily borrowing the techniques of Takashi Ito's Thunder, Thunderstruck layers it with computational editing into something jarring.
Beatrice Hoang is a Vietnamese-American filmmaker based in the Greater Boston area who integrates digital and analog techniques in auto-fiction. With a background in computer vision, she explores narrative and experimental modes through collage, voiceover, and computational imaging. Her film Thunderstruck was part of the 2024 Scream Queer and 2024 Free the Kitsch film festivals, and her film My Sight is Lined with Visions premiered at the 2026 Shawna Shea Film Festival and was awarded Outstanding Long Short Film. Beatrice just finished Miles and Miles, a project inspired by her love for salsa dancing and queer nightlife. Find more at www.beatricehoang.com.
404 Page not found - Gina Kamentsky
1:11
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been instructed by the Trump administration to pause or retract any periodical or journal article that references specific LGBT topics, with agency staff allegedly being provided a list of words that must be removed from all publications.
Gina Kamentsky is an animator, kinetic sculptor and sound artist based in Providence Rhode Island. Her anxious and joyful short films blast out at twenty-four frames per second searing eyeballs and sending waves of buzz and crackle into the ether.
Over her three decade career she’s progressed through numerous forms including painting, drawing and collaging on film, Rotoscope, Musique concrète, sound collage, stop motion and Pixilation. Kamentsky’s films have screened at festivals nationally and worldwide. In 2026 she received the prestigious Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival for her film “Dead Name”.
1:11
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been instructed by the Trump administration to pause or retract any periodical or journal article that references specific LGBT topics, with agency staff allegedly being provided a list of words that must be removed from all publications.
Gina Kamentsky is an animator, kinetic sculptor and sound artist based in Providence Rhode Island. Her anxious and joyful short films blast out at twenty-four frames per second searing eyeballs and sending waves of buzz and crackle into the ether.
Over her three decade career she’s progressed through numerous forms including painting, drawing and collaging on film, Rotoscope, Musique concrète, sound collage, stop motion and Pixilation. Kamentsky’s films have screened at festivals nationally and worldwide. In 2026 she received the prestigious Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival for her film “Dead Name”.
Happy Mother’s Day - Isabella Sperotto and Mariana Mello
4:27
The short film Happy Mother’s Day sets out to examine how the maternal bond—commonly associated with a nurturing space of affection and unconditional love—can also function as an extension of the phallogocentric patriarchal system, becoming a source of subjugation and devitalization for women. Taking as its starting point a Mother’s Day encounter between a mother and daughter, the screenplay presents micro-everyday situations in which violence disguises itself as care, and the experience of becoming a woman is permeated by recurring episodes of both objective and symbolic oppression within the home.
In addition to addressing an issue that has become increasingly central within feminist debates, we chose to have the majority of roles in the film carried out by women and non-binary professionals. Finally, we believe that speaking about motherhood, guilt, and boundaries is a way of questioning the impact of transgenerational transmission on the formation of new parameters of existence—something fundamental to the construction of new possible worlds.
Isabella Sperotto is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, writing, psychology and music. She holds a BA in World Performance from East 15 Acting School – University of Essex (2020), in England; a degree in Psychology from the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (2016). Isabella studied with Odin Teatret (2019) and grounds her practice in anthropological theater and interculturality. She has performed in countries such as Spain, Italy, Denmark, and England, with works including the solo piece The Yellow Traffic Light, which had a run at the VAULT Festival/UK (2023), exploring family relationships between female characters and their pacts of suffering.
Mariana Mello is a journalist, a performer and a master’s student in Dance at Faculdade Angel Vianna. She researches maternal relationships, autonomy, and strategies of deviation through the feminine. She is the author of the book Boneca Overdose (Urutau Publishing), which explores the effects of institutions on women’s bodies and subjectivity, producing stereotyped versions of femininity.
4:27
The short film Happy Mother’s Day sets out to examine how the maternal bond—commonly associated with a nurturing space of affection and unconditional love—can also function as an extension of the phallogocentric patriarchal system, becoming a source of subjugation and devitalization for women. Taking as its starting point a Mother’s Day encounter between a mother and daughter, the screenplay presents micro-everyday situations in which violence disguises itself as care, and the experience of becoming a woman is permeated by recurring episodes of both objective and symbolic oppression within the home.
In addition to addressing an issue that has become increasingly central within feminist debates, we chose to have the majority of roles in the film carried out by women and non-binary professionals. Finally, we believe that speaking about motherhood, guilt, and boundaries is a way of questioning the impact of transgenerational transmission on the formation of new parameters of existence—something fundamental to the construction of new possible worlds.
Isabella Sperotto is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, writing, psychology and music. She holds a BA in World Performance from East 15 Acting School – University of Essex (2020), in England; a degree in Psychology from the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (2016). Isabella studied with Odin Teatret (2019) and grounds her practice in anthropological theater and interculturality. She has performed in countries such as Spain, Italy, Denmark, and England, with works including the solo piece The Yellow Traffic Light, which had a run at the VAULT Festival/UK (2023), exploring family relationships between female characters and their pacts of suffering.
Mariana Mello is a journalist, a performer and a master’s student in Dance at Faculdade Angel Vianna. She researches maternal relationships, autonomy, and strategies of deviation through the feminine. She is the author of the book Boneca Overdose (Urutau Publishing), which explores the effects of institutions on women’s bodies and subjectivity, producing stereotyped versions of femininity.
Oríkì Oshun - Elena Herminia Guzman
14:55
An experimental visual praise poem dedicated to Orisha Oshun, the mother of the sweet waters. Oríkì Oshun uses sacred stories, drumming, and ritual to weave a divine visual tapestry.
Elena Herminia Guzman is an Afro-Boricua director and producer raised in the Bronx with deep roots in the LES. As an educator, she teaches feminist filmmaking, Black cinema, production, and visual anthropology. Her work as a filmmaker has been supported by PBS, Black Public Media, the Independent Public Media Foundation, and the Scribe Foundation amongst others. She is the director and producer of the film Smile4Kime (2023), a short experimental hybrid documentary that uses animation and live-action footage to tell the stories of how two friends transcend, time, space, and even death to find that their friendship lives on. The film received an honorable mention for the Jean Rouch Award at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival and was nominated for the LOLA Shorts Award at the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival. Smile4Kime had its international broadcast premiere on AfroPop, PBS. She is also producing a docuseries called Conjure that explores the traditions of African American Hoodoo in the United States. She is a co-founder of Ethnocine Collective, a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, and a producer for the podcast Bad Feminists Making Films.
14:55
An experimental visual praise poem dedicated to Orisha Oshun, the mother of the sweet waters. Oríkì Oshun uses sacred stories, drumming, and ritual to weave a divine visual tapestry.
Elena Herminia Guzman is an Afro-Boricua director and producer raised in the Bronx with deep roots in the LES. As an educator, she teaches feminist filmmaking, Black cinema, production, and visual anthropology. Her work as a filmmaker has been supported by PBS, Black Public Media, the Independent Public Media Foundation, and the Scribe Foundation amongst others. She is the director and producer of the film Smile4Kime (2023), a short experimental hybrid documentary that uses animation and live-action footage to tell the stories of how two friends transcend, time, space, and even death to find that their friendship lives on. The film received an honorable mention for the Jean Rouch Award at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival and was nominated for the LOLA Shorts Award at the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival. Smile4Kime had its international broadcast premiere on AfroPop, PBS. She is also producing a docuseries called Conjure that explores the traditions of African American Hoodoo in the United States. She is a co-founder of Ethnocine Collective, a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, and a producer for the podcast Bad Feminists Making Films.
The Watershed - Silvy Zhou
12:02
“The Watershed” is an experimental film that tells the story of a girl who, after witnessing her older sister’s mysterious drowning, discovers that the river and its water connects them even in her sister’s death. Inspired by the history of the Moshassuck waterways in Rhode Island, this story explores themes of control, containment, and grief. Using a mixture of techniques, including processes which alter the 16mm film surface itself, the poetic quality of this film invites the audience to lean into its elusive yet tactile imagery.
Silvy is a Chinese-American artist, a filmmaker, and a naturalist. Through a variety of mediums, she tells stories of reckoning with forces bigger than oneself. The evidence of these forces are revealed in the mundanity, minutiae, and mystery of the worlds which she composes— from a swarm of mayfly larvae persevering through polluted waters to the simple flickering of sunlight perfectly refracted through a window.
12:02
“The Watershed” is an experimental film that tells the story of a girl who, after witnessing her older sister’s mysterious drowning, discovers that the river and its water connects them even in her sister’s death. Inspired by the history of the Moshassuck waterways in Rhode Island, this story explores themes of control, containment, and grief. Using a mixture of techniques, including processes which alter the 16mm film surface itself, the poetic quality of this film invites the audience to lean into its elusive yet tactile imagery.
Silvy is a Chinese-American artist, a filmmaker, and a naturalist. Through a variety of mediums, she tells stories of reckoning with forces bigger than oneself. The evidence of these forces are revealed in the mundanity, minutiae, and mystery of the worlds which she composes— from a swarm of mayfly larvae persevering through polluted waters to the simple flickering of sunlight perfectly refracted through a window.
trannies live forever: turn your eyes to the sky - Thair Thursday
10:00
A transfag hero goes to battle with The Men. Laid low, he chooses the path best known to him: transformation.
Thair Thursday (he/him) is an interdisciplinary maker living, teaching, growing, and making in Illinois. The proud son of a transfag lineage, Thair likes to explore the technologies of social agreements and how they impact our relationships, behaviors, and movements.
10:00
A transfag hero goes to battle with The Men. Laid low, he chooses the path best known to him: transformation.
Thair Thursday (he/him) is an interdisciplinary maker living, teaching, growing, and making in Illinois. The proud son of a transfag lineage, Thair likes to explore the technologies of social agreements and how they impact our relationships, behaviors, and movements.
